Monthly Archives: October 2019

Diatom hunting

PhD student Ashleigh Kirker has been hunting for diatoms in stormwater runoff.  She is finding them!  We hope to look for variations with the help of colleagues at the Academy of Natural Sciences who have expertise in diatom identification. This … Continue reading

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Watershed tour with Wm Penn Foundation

Every two years, our funding agency, the William Penn Foundation, comes out to see our stormwater construction projects in the suburban watersheds.  This year we showed them some new monitoring to better understand how land use impacts stormwater runoff. Tour … Continue reading

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Photogrammetry with drones

Mike Alonzo of American University visited our I-95 storm basins to show Josh Caplan and me how to use photogrammetry and remote sensing to map the canopy.  We collected photos at 2 second intervals along regular transects with the drone.  … Continue reading

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